Word: allenate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WOODY ALLEN His appeal of pro-Mia custody decision is laughed out of court...
...Office of Information Technology (OIT) will simplify its operations and reduce costs under a new plan introduced by Allen J. Proctor '74, vice president for finance...
While groups like the Family Research Council insist that online child molesters represent a clear and present danger, there is no evidence that it is any greater than the thousand other threats children face every day. Ernie Allen, executive director of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, acknowledges that there have been 10 or 12 "fairly high-profile cases" in the past year of children being seduced or lured online into situations where they are victimized. Kids who are not online are also at risk, however; more than 800,000 children are reported missing every year...
...this excitement and attention bemuse the traditional gardeners, those lifelong devotees for whom the hobby is a necessity, not a luxury. "They would garden," observes Allen Lacy, who has been writing about the original tribe for years, "even if everyone else considered that gardening was a sign of a diseased mind and uncouth habits." Yet Lacy is convinced that whatever motive draws gardeners in, whether vanity or foolishness or the need to bury their treasure in the ground, the actual experience outdoors will come to exert its own pull. "I know nobody who has given it up, except for reasons...
...again. Having only recently outmaneuvered a Republican majority to remain the state assembly speaker, Brown outflanked the G.O.P. one last time before stepping down from the post he has held for 15 years. Capitalizing on the parties' even split of the current chamber, Brown recruited a dissident Republican, Doris Allen, to take over his job, put her over the top with the votes of all Democrats and then got himself appointed "speaker emeritus" -- a position that will allow him to "assist" the new speaker while he focuses on running for mayor of San Francisco. Allen is the first woman...